DANGOTE Group will in the first quarter of next year commission a US$50 million power plant that will supply 30 Mega Watts (MW) of electricity to its multi-million dollar cement factory currently under construction in Ndola.
Company senior general manager in charge of projects, Anand Kameshwar, said construction works on the project were progressing well and the power plant would start functioning by the end of the first quarter of 2014.
He said this would be before the cement manufacturing factory is fully operational in July, 2014.
“The 30 MW power plant at a cost of $50 million, is currently under the construction stage and works are going on well.
“This plant is intended at making its own power available to the cement plant as opposed to connecting to the usually overloaded national grid,” he said.
Dangote, one of Africa’s largest conglomerates, has invested $400 million in setting up a 3,000 tonne cement plant on the outskirts of Ndola.
Mr Kameshwar said on this project, machinery has already been installed and construction works are on schedule.
“Major equipment is being installed and works are progressing as scheduled and by mid next year, the plant should be operational,” he said.
Mr Kameshwar said initially, the plant would start operating at a capacity of 3,000 tonnes per day, though this will increase steadily in the long-term.
The Dangote factory will be the third such establishment to be operational in Ndola alongside similar plants currently run by Zambezi Portland and Lafarge cement.
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